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"What, there's two people in the same year named Sherlock? No wonder you got mixed up. Look, I got here early because my dad was too busy to take me shopping, I know my way around, what's your hall called?"

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"What are you, though, what kind of demented freak did they put me with, I will complain, Dad will sue the place, you shouldn't be around people till you've been a few years at the hospital to get straightened out in the head, did you get in the way of a Confundus or what, eugh," and, clutching her wand with what might be nervousness, Artemis surges to her feet and marches past him, heading for the stairwell to find someone suitably official to object to his presence at.

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"Well, first of all, Miss Stark, at ACAAM we have a policy about politeness to staff, but I understand you're probably confused, so I'll let this slide. Your sister apparently has some - habits - that have distressed her roommate - and I was wondering if you could shed any light on the matter before I have to call your parents about it? I'm sure you can see Miss Burberry is distressed."

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"Miss Stark," says the Residence Director, "if you have a brother, he is not in attendance at ACAAM. We are talking about your sister Sherlock. She cannot have a single because the limited number of available single rooms are all occupied, and most of them are on the halls reserved for the higher grades."

"Why didn't you just room them together, though," Bella says, "is there a rule against putting siblings together?"

"Yes, Miss Swan, as a matter of fact there is," says the Residence Director testily, "because one of the advantages of schooling over home education is integrating with the broader magical community, meeting more types of people, and coming to the understanding that one cannot stick solely to the company of one's family. The Miss Starks will not be rooming together. Ideally we will discover the issue with Sherlock's reference to herself as though she were a boy - and Antoinette's too, come to think of it - and we will find a way for Sherlock and Miss Burberry to room together peacefully."